[gothic-l] Re: fairhwus + Greutingi + Gothic loans in Polish

[faltin2001]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "semiconsrback" <adan-pol at w...>
wrote:
> Hi francisc,
> "Proper gothic" in the sense that it was the gothic spoken at the
> time of Wulfila's bible translation, which constitutes the main
> corpus of the extant gothic texts. Early gothic should have been
> closer to North-germanic, from which it had already started to
> differentiate after its speaker's migration from scandinavia and
> gotland into the vistula area.





I recommend the recent study "Ostgermanisch' in the Reallexikon der
Germanischen Altertumskunde. To summarise the finding: Gothic is not
closer to North Germanic than to any other Germanic dialect. Yet,
North and West Germanic are closer related than North Germanic to
Gothic and West Germanic to Gothic. The argumentation is based on
rather complicated linguistic analysis.

Cheers,

Dirk




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